Before being a well-known supercar manufacturer of the 21th century, McLaren was born after a vision of a young man, a talented New-Zealander Formula 1 driver: Bruce McLaren. The youngest F1 driver to win a race at age 22 in 1959, a record which stood until Fernando Alonso rocked up in 2003, but being so…

Johnny Cecotto was talented on two and four wheels, originally getting his knee-down against the likes of Barry Sheene and Kenny Roberts and eventually becoming the 350cc World Motorcycle Champion, he switched to four wheels in 1980. A few years in F2 and narrowly missing out on the championship in 1982 led him to a…

Historically, the real Bathurst 12 Hour is a bit of a safety car festival, but that has nothing on the iRacing Bathurst 12H. Top pro drivers like Max Verstappen, Lando Norris, Nicky Catsburg as well as professional sim racers such as Jimmy Broadbent and Matt Malone (and a few FYRC fans) took on the virtual…

Two turbocharged 1.6L Suzuki Cultus engines with around 400hp each, heaps of aero and one amazing driver to steer it! From 1989 to 1993, “Monster” Tajima of Suzuki Escudo (and basically anything else Suzuki) fame built and evolved this absolute rocket ship to take out the overall win at Pikes Peak. It never quite got…

The year was 2015, my buddy Russ and I had just spent a full weekend in the sweltering Australian summer sun, pretty tired from a decent amount of walking and alcoholic beverage consumption throughout our 12-hour (and then some) stint. Japanese driver Katsumasa Chiyo announced himself as a new Bathurst cult-hero in 2015 after delivering…

I stumbled across this excellent amateur footage of the infamous Audi Quattro Group B rally car at the Rally of New Zealand and it doesn’t disappoint! Walter Röhrl, 5-cylinder symphonies – what more do you want?!

We tried very hard to narrow this down to five and you probably have your own ideas on what should have made the cut (you could easily make this a list of 50) – there are just way too many! Peter Brock in the wet – Bathurst 1987 Greg Murphy’s reaction to getting a 5-minute…

“And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.”

Look, I have nothing against John Travolta or Shania Twain and as the old saying goes, “never judge a book by its cover”, but judging this book by its cover, it’s going to be a cross between Driven and Herbie Fully Loaded. By the looks of it, John Travolta plays a washed-up racer, with a know-it-all,…

The year was 2006, Colin had retired from full-time World Rally Championship shenanigans and the X Games had added a rally event to its roster of sports for the first time and lured the 1995 WRC champ to Los Angeles to compete. Going up against the benchmark time set by Travis Pastrana in a similar…